Leo Varadkar Quotes
If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which is typically what people describe as being left-of-centre on social issues and right-of-centre on economic issues.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying 'Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?' 'Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?' 'Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?'
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I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.
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When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.
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I want to be an actress, not a personality.
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If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which is typically what people describe as being left-of-centre on social issues and right-of-centre on economic issues.
